The Global Search for Education: More Arts Please
Aug23

The Global Search for Education: More Arts Please

 More Arts Please Sir   Photo Courtesy of Beechwood Sacred Heart School UK.  “To lose our culture is to lose our memory.”   More Leonardo da Vincis, more Martha Grahams, more Ludwig Van Beethovens, more Luciano Pavarottis, more Marlon Brandos, more Antoni Gaudis, more Coco Chanels, more Bob Dylans, more Zhang Xiaogangs, more William Shakespeares, more Julia Margaret Camerons, more Gustav Vigelands, more Andrew Lloyd...

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The Global Search for Education: More Focus on Change
Aug16

The Global Search for Education: More Focus on Change

 Early Steps to School Success, Save the Children US Programs  photo: Rick D’Elia  “I saw crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children alike.”  — President Barack Obama, 2008 Change is painful.  Change takes time.  Change is trial and error, but isn’t change ultimately brought about by leadership which has the ability to rally all the policy makers around the...

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The Global Search for Education: The Technology Connection
Aug09

The Global Search for Education: The Technology Connection

 Will Apple’s iPad 2 change the way we watch a book or appreciate nature?  photo courtesy of Susan Leslie. “If you asked a parent they might call it intuitive. If you asked a musician they might call it inspiring. To a doctor it’s groundbreaking. To a CEO it’s powerful. To a teacher it’s the future. If you asked a child, she might call it magic.” …And if you asked the producers of the Apple...

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The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food….
Jul26

The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food….

 Leon Botstein will conduct the landmark production of Richard Strauss’s opera Die Liebe der Danae opening Bard Music Festival July 29 photo courtesy of Bard College.  If music be the food of educational excellence, play on Maestro Botstein. Give me excess of Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae at Bard Summerscape 2011. That strain again Maestro, it had a dying fall. It came o’er my ear like the sweet sound of...

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The Global Search for Education: New Zealand is Ready!
Jul19

The Global Search for Education: New Zealand is Ready!

 Prime Minister John Key and young New Zealanders celebrate 100 Days to Go to Rugby World Cup 2011.  Photo courtesy of RWCNZ 2011.  New Zealand’s “Stadium of Four Million” is ready to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup on September 9. In its world cup bid for the championship, this unique multi-cultural nation (with the most highly ranked rugby team in the world) promised to provide optimum world class rugby...

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